WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The international ship management company based in the United Kingdom, Norbulk Shipping, will pay $750,000 in penalties for failing to maintain an accurate oil record book and providing false information to the US Coast Guard about oil discharge, the US Department of Justice Department said in a press release.
“The company was sentenced to pay a criminal penalty of $750,000 and placed on three years of probation,” the press release read on Wednesday.
Trying to conceal the dumping, crewmembers showed New Jersey Coast Guard a false oil and garbage record books, the press release said.
“As we have shown before, shipping companies that engage in these criminal practices and deliberately discharge oil — and then lie about it to the Coast Guard — will be prosecuted,” US Attorney for the District of New Jersey Paul Fishman said.
The US Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships requires vessels to maintain a record of all transfers and disposals of oil-contaminated waste, as well as records of garbage discharge into the sea from the ship.
